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Where exactly did that $44 billion go? With the tax incentives Twitter had from SF, and the massive layoffs... There was a fuck-ton of money that went somplace... to where?


To the previous shareholders of Twitter to compensate them for the shares.


So what audience did this equate to WRT Musk with the top "shareholders"?


The shareholders.

Anyone who had stock in Twitter got a big pile of cash.


The 44B was to buy ownership of Twitter. It went to the shareholders.


So what audience did this equate to WRT Musk with the top "shareholders"?


To all the former owners of Twitter. Twitter never controlled it.




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